Paraphrase Set 6

Question 1

War

Answer 1

1. Engage in combat
2. Conflict
3. Go into battle
4. Attack others

Question 2

Doubt on the abilities

Answer 2

Scepticism placed / levied on their capabilities

Question 3

Condescendingly dismissed

Answer 3

1. Scorned
2. Mocked
3. Patronised
4. Sneered at

For condescending: disdainfully / derisively

Question 4

Give a wide berth

Give the meaning as well

Answer 4

Meaning: steer clear of or stay away from

Avoid:
- interactions
- engagement
- developing connections

Question 5

Audacity

Answer 5

• Temerity
• boldness
• dares

Question 6

Albatross

Give the meaning as well

Answer 6

Meaning: someone or something you want to be free because it is causing problems for you

• Burden
• weight
• load
• encumbrance

Question 7

Admirers

Answer 7

• followers
• supporters

Question 8

Venerated

Answer 8

1. High esteem
2. Adored
3. Revered

Question 9

Surrounds

Answer 9

• encircles
• enfolds
• encompasses

Question 10

More likely to get ahead in life

Answer 10

• greater probability…
• greater prospect…
  in succeeding

Question 11

Accorded favours

Answer 11

Accorded…
- favoured
- privileges
- superior

Question 12

Improve and do better

Answer 12

• flourish
• thrive
• prosper
• blossom
• be successful
• get to the top
• make good or excel

Question 13

Opportunities to secure funding

Answer 13

• gaining capital
• procuring investors

Question 14

Turn the spotlight on issues that most people sideline

Answer 14

• drawing attention to
• focus
• highlight
• underscore

Sidelined: the obscure

Question 15

Expend a lot of more energy
(Flip opposite)

Answer 15

reduced
- effort
- pain
- bother
- exertion
- more easily

Question 16

Higher success rates in procreation

Answer 16

• greater
• better chance

For procreation:
- to breed
- to reproduce
- have offspring / heirs / children

Question 17

Diminish their efforts to foster relationships

Answer 17

• have the leeway to reduce time
• reduce energy to maintain:

For relationships,
- bonds
- affiliations
- links
- contacts
- affinity
- connections

Question 18

Better able to invest in…reduced psychological issues

Answer 18

• devote
• expend
• endow
• spend on

Psychological: social-emotional health

Question 19

Politicians who turn heads can hold sway over their voters

Answer 19

• increase the credibility of
• increase the influence of:

Leaders / head of governments